A Unit­ed Na­tions-backed in­dex mea­sur­ing hunger and mal­nu­tri­tion in glob­al hotspots has warned that 5.7 mil­lion Haitians are fac­ing a de­te­ri­o­rat­ing food se­cu­ri­ty sit­u­a­tion, as armed groups con­tin­ue to ex­pand their ter­ri­to­r­i­al con­trol around the French-speak­ing Caribbean coun­try.

The lat­est in­ter­na­tion­al­ly recog­nised In­te­grat­ed Food Se­cu­ri­ty Phase Clas­si­fi­ca­tion (IPC) hunger re­port pro­vides an analy­sis for the pe­ri­od of Sep­tem­ber 2025 un­til Feb­ru­ary 2026 and a pro­jec­tion for March un­til June of next year.

The UN on Fri­day said the re­port not­ed that 1.9 mil­lion peo­ple in Haiti – or 17 per cent of the pop­u­la­tion – are suf­fer­ing emer­gency lev­els of acute food in­se­cu­ri­ty, “which leaves them with food gaps, high acute mal­nu­tri­tion and ex­cess mor­tal­i­ty rates.”